John Lennon & Ian Drury at Thame Cinema - June 5, 2010 -
AT Thame Cinema 4 All, Nelson Street, Thame - this Saturday, June 5, 2010 - Nowhere Boy and Sex and Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll - Both 15 cert.
Nowhere Boy, the debut feature of Sam Taylor-Wood, tells the never seen before story of John Lennons childhood. Young John (Alex Ambrose) is a bright but sharp-tongued boy living in Liverpool during the 1950s with his aunt Mimi (Kristin Scott Thomas) and uncle George (David Threlfall). John's father walked out on the family when he was four years old, and the boy was given to Mimi to raise, even though his mother, Julia (Anne-Marie Duff), was still alive. Julia's personality is a much closer fit to John than Mimi, and she encourages his love for writing and music, teaching him to play the banjo. However, John's renewed relationship with Julia brings up a number of unanswered questions, and causes new tensions between Mimi and John. It's an affecting movie about coming of age and leaving home, and about the radical changes in British life since the Second World War.
Sex and Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll features a barnstorming, passionate performance from Andy Serkis bringing 1970s music legend Ian Dury stunningly back to life in this gutsy biopic. It's obviously a labour of love, but it never looks laborious. Dury was the singer-songwriter and pugnacious polio survivor who in the glorious anyone-can-have-a-go era of punk became a mega-star. Andy Serkis's re-creation of Dury could give you goosepimples, and his vocals - Serkis himself sings all the classic tracks with the real band, the Blockheads - are eerily good. He is in almost every frame of this film and his ferocious energy powers it irresistibly along. Four stars (The Guardian)
This Saturday 5th June
Doors open 7.30pm. Nowhere Boy will kick off at 8pm sharp and runs for 97 mins so we will have a break at around 9.40 for 20 minutes with Sex and Drugs and Rock & Roll starting at 10.00pm and ending around 11.55pm.
You are welcome to come to one film or both. Our ticket price will be £7.50 for both films and £5 for either one. The bar will be open all evening.
Thame Cinema 4 All at Thame Players Theatre, Nelson Street, Thame.
Details of forthcoming films at Thame Cinema for All are available on:
www.thamecinema.org.uk
Supported by- Screen South, South Oxfordshire District Council, and UK Film Council.
